Listening to and from Palestine – Panel discussion
Location:
Virtual Event
Date/time
Mon 17 May 2021
15:00-17:00
Listening to and from Palestine – Panel discussion co-hosted by RACE.ED, PIR MERG, IMES and ECIGL
Co-hosted by RACE.ED, Sociology, Politics and International Relations Middle East Research Group (PIR MERG), Islamic and Middle East Studies (IMES), Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law (ECIGL),
This panel will discuss the recent events across Palestine and contextualise them within a wider historical, legal and political context. Panellists will discuss the implications and repercussions of this moment and the challenges they pose for those who struggle on the ground and advocate for justice in Palestine.
Speakers:
Sahar Francis is an attorney and general director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Francis became director in 2005 and has been a human rights legal advocate since 1994. She specialises in issues of Palestinian political prisoners, including ill-treatment and torture, administrative detention, prison conditions and prisoners' rights. Francis has extensive experience litigating in the Israeli Supreme Court and Israeli military court system.
Mariam Barghouti is a Palestinian writer and researcher. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Al-Jazeera, Huffington Post, Middle East Monitor, Mondoweiss and International Business Times. Her research focuses on socio-economic and political inequalities. She has covered research on Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. She is also an alumnus from the University of Edinburgh.
Sherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-editor of Jadaliyya e-zine and the Journal of Palestine Studies. Seikaly's Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home and the body.
Malaka Shwaikh is a Palestinian from Gaza. She is an Associate Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of St Andrews.
Yasmine Ahmed is UK Director for Human Rights Watch. Yasmine is formerly Executive Director of Rights and Security International, and Legal Adviser at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.